Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-11-12
"REVENGEi REVENGE!
"WORkMEN, TO ARMS

"Mcn of labor. this afternoon the bloodhounds of
your oppressors murdered six Of your brothers at
Met ormick's Why did they murder them, Re
they dared to be dissatisfied with the lot which
your upprrssors have assigned to them. They de
manded bread and they gave them lead for
swer. mindful Of the fact that thus people most
effectively silenced. lou have for many years en-
durcd every humiliation without protest, have
drudged from early in the morning till late at night
rihccd your children. lou have done everything to
I'LL the Golfers of your thing for them,
aud now, when you approach them and impore them
to make your burden little lighter, reward for
your sacrifices they send their boodhounds-the po-
ice-at you in order to cure you, with bullets, of
your dissatisfaction. Slaves ask and conure you
hy all that is sacred and dear to you, ayenge the
atrocious murder which has been committed on your
brothers to-day, and which will likely he committed
upon YOU to morrow. Laboring men, Hercules, you
have arrived n, the crossway. Which way will you
decide? For slavery and hunger or for freedom and
bread? II YOU decide for the latter then do not de
hay q moment, then, people, to arms! This must be
your motto Think o. the heroes whose blood has
fertzcd the road to progress. liberty and humanity
and TO strive and become worthy of them.
Your BROTHERS"
Neehe and other notables of the |. A. A.
took horses, and in person scattered the
circular broadcast, not failing to leave copies
with the rank and file of the International
earned sections" gathering in Greifs Hall.
"a West Lake street. That the circular gave
the impulse to the action of the armed sec
tons at this Monday night meeting, and in
spred the adoption of
THE PLAN OF BoMB-rHRowISG
agreed upon, is apparent from the fact that
its contents were first fully discussed. Then
the complete detailed plan of the particular
method of inaugurating the wholesale murder
for which they originally organized was for
mally considered and adopted, the time for
the slaughter being left for the Arbeiter
Zeitung TO designate by publishing the signal
word 'ruhe" (peace). This latter feature
was the work of Adolph Fischer, who had
come to the meeting straight from the
Arbeiter Zeitung where he had been assist
ing Spies and Schwab That Fischer was
carving out the plans of his superiors APP
pears more clearly from the circumstance
that il was he who
MAxEuvREp THE ARMED SECTIONS"
Out of their idea of holding the haymarket
meeting in the morning instead of at night,
as Spies and other leaders had decided.
4 darker picture is not to be found in
history than this spectacle of four-score
murierous conspirators in the wretched
acknowledgements, remorselessly plotting the
massacre that occurred not a hundred yarvis
distant, before another midnight passed.
Rudolph Schnaubelt, the thrower of the hay
assassins who composed this horrible meet
ing. Though adjournment did not come
until long after eleven. Ii not seven
o'clock next morning, Tuesday, when Louis
Lingg, a member of this identical armed
section" opened the chest of dynamite that
had lain untouched in his lodgings since four
days before. Under his expert directions
six of the men who attended the murder
meeting of the previous night, quickly set to
work then and there filling plobular shells
| with dynamite.
| Early as was the hour, Fischer was also at
work getting out the hand-bills calling the
mass meeting. The hand-bills' last words
were "workingmen. Arm yourselves and
appear in full force" What Spies. Schwab
and the other leaders were doing that dav
may be partly inferred from the
BURNING APPEALS FOR RESISTANCE
and calls ITO Arms :" that appeared in their
newspaper organs that evening .sRuhe.
penned by Spies own hand, started out of
the Areeiter Zeitung. After the papers
were of and their editors had swallowed